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Longmont transient found dead in vehicle behind Meadow Street house

Police: 48-year-old man's death not suspicous

Longmont Times-Call

Posted:
03/17/2013 03:39:34 PM MDT

Updated:
03/17/2013 10:51:03 PM MDT

Officials from the Boulder County Coroner s Office, center, and the Longmont Police Department investigate the backyard of a home on the 1800 block of Meadow Street, where a body was found in a vehicle on Sunday afternoon. Police do not think the death was suspicious.
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Matthew Jonas
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LONGMONT -- A transient man who has long lived in Longmont was found dead in an SUV on Sunday afternoon, but police do not believe his death is suspicious.

Police have not released the 48-year-old man's name, because his family has not been notified, Cmdr. Jeff Satur wrote in an email.

"This death is unrelated and not connected to the death investigation at Lanyon Park on the evening of March 14," Satur wrote. "The neighborhood does not need to be alarmed."

Police were called to the 1800 block of Meadow Street at 3:22 p.m. after a resident of a home there said he found a man in a white Jeep who appeared to be "beyond help," according to the police dispatcher.

The deceased often slept in the vehicle, Satur wrote.

The vehicle was parked behind the house, Sgt. Eric Lewis said. Several people needed to be interviewed as part of the investigation, and police obtained a search warrant for the house Sunday evening, Satur said.

The Boulder County Coroner's Office will perform an autopsy, then determine the cause and manner of death.

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